As a person who appreciates simplicity, and being a non-compu-nerd, anything you can do to make things run smoother is fine with me. I still fail to grasp what was wrong with the old site and I always fuss when things are changed.
A couple of comments:
Could the topics be listed similar to the MSN site? This opening page has a bunch of stuff I really don't care about, statistics, etc. but I would like to easily see what topics are being or have been kicked about.
If this note is the "normal" size, I think I prefer reading something like the size on the old site, whatever that was. It is all right to type at this size, but it seems unwarranted with over half the screen taken up with boxes and emoticons.
As a non-nerd, I don't quite understand what BBCode is, and a lot of the other preferences. I am one of those that prefer a TV clicker with up-down channels and volume and forget all the bells and whistles.
Roy